New Ulm weekly review., 1887-12-14
WOOL
The Removal or Reduction of Duties There
on Suggested, Supported by Exhaustive

'&E5t f5l5L1 WOVH
The Removal or Reduct ion of Duties There
on Suggested, Supported by Exhaustive
Argument.
The farmer or agriculturist who manu-
factures nothing but who pays the increased
price which the tariff imposes upon every
agricultural Implement, upon all he wears
and upon all he uses and owns, except the
increase of his flocks and herds and such
things as his husbandry produces from the
soil, is invited 70 aid in maintaining the
present situation; and he is told that u high
duty on imported wool is necessary for those
who have sheep to shear, in order that the
price of their wool may by increased They,
OF course, are not reminded chat the farmer
who has no sheep is by this scheme obliged,
IN his purchases of clothing and WOOlen
goods, to pay tribute to his fellow farmer
as well as to the manufacturer and mer-
chant; nor Is any mention made of the fact
that the sheep owners themselves and their
households must wear clothing and
use other articles manufactured from the
wool they sell at tariff prices and thus
as consumers must return their shares
OF this increased price of the tradesman.
think 1t may be fairly assumed that large
proportion OF the sheep owned by the farm
ers throughout the country are found in
small focks numbering from twenty-five to
hfty: The duty on the grade of imported
wool which these sheep yield Ia ten cents
each pound II Of the value OF thirty cents or
less, and twelve cents II of the value OF more
than thirty cents. II the liberal es: innate OF
six pounds be allowed for each fleece, the
duty thereon would be sixty or seventy two
cents, and this may be taken as the utmost
enhancement of its price to the farmer by
reason Of this duty. Eighteen dollars would
thus represent the increased price Of the
wool from twenty-five sheep and $36 that
from the wool OF fifty sheep, and at present
values this addition would amount to about
one third of its price. II upon its sale the
farmer receives this or less tariff profit. the
wool leaves his hands charged with precisely
that sum, which in all its changes will adj
here to it until it reaches the consumer.
When manufactured into cloth and other
goods and maJerial for use, its cost ls not
only increased to the extent of the
farmers tariff profit, bus further
sum has been added for the profit
of the manufactures under the operation OF
Ghero tariff iaws In the meantime the day
arrives when the farmer finds it necessary
to purchase Woolen goods and material to
othe himself and family for the winter.
When he faces the tradesman for that pur-
pose be discovers that he is obliged net only
TO return, in the way Of increased prices. his
tariff profit on the wool he sold, and which
then perhaps lies before him in manufacr-
ured form, but that he must add a a6consider-
able sum thereto to meet further increase
In cost caused by tariff duty on the manu-
facture. Thus in the end he is aroused to
| the fact that he has paid upon moderate
| purchase as result Of the tariff scheme
which, when he sold his wool. seemed sc
| profitable,
AN INCREASE IN PRICE
more than sufficient to sweep away all the
/ tariff profit ne received upon the wool he
i produced and sold When che number o1
farmers engaged in wool raising is compared
with all the farmers in the country, and the